cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44125257

By tools I mean anything from alternate frontends to add-ons/extensions for browsers or anything else. By features I mean any built-in features the service may provide to give you some degree of customization or control over your experience, e.g. lists/blocking/keyword filtering/etc.

Thanks in advance!

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    Youtube - I use uBlock Origin, and a mental tool, I curate the shit out of my watch history, if I watch a video that falls even slightly outside my core focus, I will remove it from my history.

    If I discover a new channel to watch I still remove the videos watched from my history.

    Only when I have watched enough videos from the channel that I know the content will I keep the history.

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    2 days ago

    It’s not really a tool, but I’m very careful about what I upload online. I never use my real name and I never upload identifying selfies or things that can lead to my identification.

    The internet has become a nasty place full of nasty people who have no shame, online and in real life.

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    Adblockers…

    And just staying the hell off anything that the masses use. Every platform went to shit once they got big.